The recent rise of Christian Zionism in Brazil: church life and politics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This contribution analyses the recent rise of a highly politicised form of Christian Zionism in Brazil, situating it within the broader expansion of evangelical and Pentecostal political engagement. While Christian Zionism has been extensively studied in the United States, its manifestations in the Global South remain understudied. The contribution challenges US-centric interpretations by tracing the historical development of Christian Zionist discourse in Brazil and examining how it became a significant force in parliamentary and foreign policy debates, particularly during the Bolsonaro administration (2019–2022). Drawing on documentary analysis of Brazilian congressional records, government websites, and religious organisations, as well as interviews with key actors, the study demonstrates that Brazilian Christian Zionism combines theological, political, and geopolitical dimensions. It identifies distinct forms of Christian Zionism – prophetic, prosperity-driven, covenantal, and cultural – as prominent in shaping Brazil’s parliamentary and diplomatic alignment with Israel. This work contributes to the literature on religion and politics by highlighting the role of transnational religious networks in reshaping Brazil’s foreign policy and evangelical identity. Ultimately, it argues that Christian Zionism in Brazil is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that reflects both global trends and specific local political and religious contexts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".